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- Page 1 ESD Testing System Model 9910 PinPulse™/PinScan™ Operating Manual D00219 – Revision E – 20190722 www.electrotechsystems.com (833) ESD-GURU (833-373-4878)
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Page 2: Table Of Contents
4.9 MONITORING THE TEST............................. 12 4.10 Viewing a Completed Test..........................14 V. OPERATION GUIDE .............................. 16 5.1. Organization of the System ..........................16 5.2 PinPulse ................................16 5.3 The Adapter Board .............................. 16 5.4 The PinMap ................................18 5.5 The PinScript ............................... 18 5.6 The Voltage Script ............................... -
Page 3: Important Safety Information
All equipment designed to simulate a high voltage electrostatic discharge, including the PinScan and PinPulse systems, utilizes high voltage, high frequency pulses. The basic nature of an ESD event will result in electromagnetic radiation in addition to the high level, short duration current pulse. - Page 4 DO NOT OPERATE WITH SUSPECTED EQUIPMENT FAILURES. If any odor or smoke becomes apparent turn off the equipment and unplug it immediately. Failure to do so may result in electrical shock, fire or permanent damage to the equipment. Contact the factory for further instructions.
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Page 5: Description Of Contents
PinScan to the computer, (3.) a USB-A to DB-9 cable to attach the PinPulse 9910 to the computer, (4.) a set of HV jumper cables for HBM, HMM, and MM models (6 cables) with a cable data sheet. -
Page 6: Setup Guide
(lower) electronics to the computer. The other cable is a USB Type A –to- USB Type A cable which connects the PinScan transport (upper) electronics to the computer. IMPORTANT: Switch the PinPulse rear panel switch to “COMPUTER”. STEP 3: Plug in the 2 AC power cords. Standard USA 110VAC cable is included. - Page 7 PinPulse tower to the right-hand clip-on ground terminal on the PinScan Deck. Plug the positive cable into the labeled color-coded banana jack on the PinPulse tower, (HBM, HMM, or MM) and attach to the left hand clip- on discharge terminal (marked with a red dot) on the PinScan deck.
- Page 8 STEP 9: Click on the PinScan Test Manager icon . The Operator Screen will open as shown with operating buttons across the top of the window. The yellow highlighted instruction fields are important – they display status updates and requests for operator action. (Program Control): Program Running: The Test Manager will indicate the running...
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Page 9: Quick Start Guide
IV. QUICK START GUIDE After setting up the system as described above, PinScan is ready to operate. This section covers the steps necessary to create a quick no-frills test, without considering options or customization. The quick start process is as follows: START PROCEDURE: •... -
Page 10: Confirm Adapter And Pinmap File
For this quick start, use the scripts as loaded. Later when you are designing tests, you can make changes using the keyboard, load in different scripts from C:ETS, or create custom scripts. Details of all the scripts can be found in section V. -
Page 11: Confirm The Voltage Script
4.3. CONFIRM THE VOLTAGE SCRIPT For each pin pair in the PinScript, a sequence of discharge pulses will be applied, at specific voltages listed in the Voltage Script. (A.K.A. “VScript”) Voltage Script # The system will have a Voltage Script loaded and ready to run and its number will appear in the VScript Ref# field. -
Page 12: Select The Esd Model
This will be displayed as a zero-voltage curve. • PinPulse 9910 will display on its front panel the first Voltage in the Voltage Script, and the system will perform a discharge at this Voltage. - Page 13 Live test status display: NOTE: The following Curve Trace and PinCheck displays only apply if Curve Tracing is active. • To the right of the Test Status area is the Curve Trace chart. If curve tracing is selected, a plot will appear here of current vs.
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Page 14: Viewing A Completed Test
• PinScan computes the variance of the PinCheck numbers for each pin, for an indication of how constant the traces are across all the discharges. Then the results are shown in the Variance Report. This is sorted by variance, so any problem pins as indicated by a high variance show up at the start of the list. - Page 15 Four yellow buttons will be activated: Next CT and Prev CT for individual navigation among the curve traces, and Next Pin and Prev Pin for navigation by device pin. • Click on “Next CT” to step to the next curve trace, •...
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Page 16: Operation Guide
5.2 PinPulse The 9910 PinPulse plays a crucial part in the operation of PinScan. It accepts commands from the Test Manager software and creates precision ESD discharges with the requested waveform and discharge Voltage. - Page 17 128 leads. ETS maintains a catalog of common adapter designs, and is happy to generate adapters for any new component for a reasonable cost. The Gerber files for the adapter board design are available to permit design of adapters by the user.
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Page 18: The Pinmap
PinScan uses a list which associates the user’s device pin numbers with the PinScan testing stage pin numbers. This list is known as the PinMap file and is kept in the C:\ETS\ folder with a name that includes the adapter number, for example ETS9910AS6408.txt for adapter # 6408. -
Page 19: The Voltage Script
The Voltage Script is identified by a 4-digit VScript number, and saved in a file on C:\ETS with the name ETS9910VSxxxx.TXT (“xxxx” denotes the VScript number.) This text file is easily ported into excel or edited directly using notepad or a similar test editor. -
Page 20: Testing Order
CAUTION: When the VScript is edited, take note of the VScript number. If the VScript is saved without changing the VScript Ref#, the file on disk will be replaced. To create a new script, change the VScript Ref# to a new number before saving. It is recommended when editing an existing PinScript file using a text editor, open the original file and immediately SAVE AS to the new file name, in the format ETS9910VSxxxx.TXT. -
Page 21: The Esd Model
5.8 The ESD Model PinScan utilizes the acclaimed versatility of the 9910 PinPulse to deliver a choice of the 3 major discharge simulation models in use in the industry: HBM ( 0 to 8kV), MM ( 0 to 1kV), and HMM ( 0 to 5kV). -
Page 22: Pincheck
The human eye is good at this, however the number of curves which must be viewed and evaluated gets very large with today’s components, and it becomes an arduous and error-prone task to completely evaluate an IC. To address these points, ETS introduces PinCheck. -
Page 23: The Pincheck Variance Report
5.11 Viewing Test Results When the test is complete, the results may be viewed in two ways: 1. On-screen 2. Reports view and plot - saved on C:ETS See section 4.10 See below D00219 Revision E – 2019-07-19 - Page 23 www.electrotechsystems.com... -
Page 24: The Test Log File
Each test creates 4 new files in the folder C:\ETS\:. See Appendix A for the detailed file formats. • Test detail file: “ETS9910Testxxxx.txt” (“xxxx” denotes the Test Reference number.) • The Sequential PinCheck file: “ETS9910CKxxxx.txt” (“xxxx” denotes the Test Reference number.) - Page 25 The initial record contains the test reference number (1145), the PinScript reference number (2145), the Voltage script reference number (3145), the curve trace mode (0 indicates no curve trace), the ESD model (0 = HBM), and the adapter in use (6408). The second record contains the description entered for the test, and the description of the device under test.
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Page 26: Data Analysis And Anomaly Detection
5.13 Data Analysis and Anomaly detection Typically, a sequence of discharges will be applied to each device pin-pair with increasing voltages, looking for the failure threshold. In order to accurately identify changes in the circuit which would indicate damage has occurred to the device, PinScan performs a Curve Trace showing the Current-vs.- Voltage characteristic at each pin-pair. -
Page 27: Maintenance, Calibration, And Troubleshooting
• PinScan utilizes the 9910 PinPulse as a waveform source, and the procedures outlined in the 9910 manual also offer verification of the source waveform. •... -
Page 28: Troubleshooting
VII. Troubleshooting • Make sure the Computer/Keypad on the rear panel of PinPulse is switched to Computer. PinPulse must be power cycled in order for the switch setting to take effect. • When the system is powered up, PinPulse should display status and PinScan should illuminate both the red and the green LEDs on its front panel as shown below. -
Page 29: Warranty
VIII. WARRANTY Limited Warranties. Seller warrants that all goods manufactured and delivered hereunder shall (a) conform to any samples, drawings, specifications or other written documents provided to Seller by Buyer, or approved by Buyer to Seller and (b) be free from all defects in workmanship and material. -
Page 30: Appendix A - Pinscan Files
A.1 SYSTEM SETUP FILES Setup file: C:\ETS\ETS9910Setup.txt Single record: System ID_ Test Ref#_P.Script Ref#_ VScript Ref#_ CT Mode _ESD Model_Adapter#_Order • ETS PinScan™ 9910 System_V16.0_ 1000 _2000_ 3000_ 2_ 1_ 6408__1 A.2 TEST SETUP FILES PinScript File C:\ETS\ETS9910PS2000.txt PinScript 1... - Page 31 A.3 TEST RESULT FILES Test Log file: C:\ETS\ETS9910TEST1000.txt Test File 1 record: Test#_Pscript#_Vscript#_CTmode_ESDmodel _Adapter#__Order • ETS9910Test_ 1000_ 2000_ 3000_ 2_ 2_ 6408_1 Test file 2 record: Test Descrip __Device Descrip • ETS9910Test _500V Full Qual _Buffer I 27XQ3345 PNV Test File 3 record: #Pins_Description of PinScript •...
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Page 32: Appendix B - Com Port Setup
APPENDIX B – COM Port Setup The PinScan system uses three USB/COM ports to control the electronics. PinScan and its laptop computer are shipped with the COM ports set properly so no attention from the user is necessary. If the software is set up on a different computer or if there is any conflict with the COM port numbers, follow the steps in this section.
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